🇺🇸🇭🇺🇪🇺 A “Roman Observer" of the papacy, Vatican, and Catholic Church since 1986, and author of the weekly "Letter from Rome", featured on @UCANews.

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Robert Mickens retweeted
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De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
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What a turd
#ULTIMAHORA La FIFA decidiĂł no tomar medidas contra Israel. El presidente dijo: "La FIFA no puede resolver cuestiones geopolĂ­ticas". La FIFA ha castigado y sigue castigando a Rusia. La FIFA es una vergĂĽenza, Israel necesita ser castigado. #mundialdefĂştbol2026
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This is a 'Pope Leo's trip to Spain' appreciation post. In just over a year he has become the world's leading voice for the human dignity of the migrant, the poor, the inmate, the downtrodden, and the voiceless. And holy cow do we need voices like his.
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And no one dare stop him…
This is a bottomless pit of corruption, large and small. Every aspect of the presidency is being treated by @POTUS and his family as an opportunity to cash in. No one has ever seen anything like it! cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/…
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This is a bottomless pit of corruption, large and small. Every aspect of the presidency is being treated by @POTUS and his family as an opportunity to cash in. No one has ever seen anything like it! cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/…
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Why is this not being reported, and scathingly, in the @nytimes?
This is seriously the cringiest collapse of a nation in real time.
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Trump is a classless creep, promoting fake bullshit on the White House lawn. How far the United States has sunk into the sewer under this moron.
Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.
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Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.
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I've received over 50 threatening messages from Zionists because of the videos I posted documenting the brutal crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. I need your support and kind words to continue until my last breath 🇵🇸
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When read in the context of its original delivery, framing this profound vision of reciprocity as a "warning to migrants" manifests its absurdity. But thousands will read only the absurdity and leave their own duties at the door along with their dulled consciences.
🚨 Pope Leo XIV has sent a WARNING to migrants, telling them how to behave when they arrive into new countries: 'Learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life and to offer your gifts with gratitude'
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JUST IN: This Is A Pretty Stunning Observation. Trump is celebrating a new Iran agreement centered on a commitment that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. According to ABC's Jonathan Karl, that same commitment appeared in the very first paragraph of President Obama's nuclear deal more than a decade ago. Think about that. First came Obama's agreement. Then Trump tore it up. Now Trump is celebrating an agreement built around the same core promise.
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The investment of Trump's son-in-law in a proposed 10,000-bed resort near a protected wildlife area that’s home to flamingos, turtles and one of Europe’s most pristine river deltas ignited Albania's biggest popular protests in recent history. trib.al/gUjGf0L
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Trump and, unfortunately, the entire United States has become a huge joke.
I still am struggling to wrap my head around the fact this is actually happening… Don’t care what your political views are, EVERYONE should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed that this is happening at the Lincoln Memorial & White House. What a joke.
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They wore red hats for him. They wore ear bandages for him. They wore diapers for him. They wore garbage bags for him. Now they cheer wars, shrug at high gas prices, call inflation “freedom” and are totally cool with pedophilia. MAGA are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
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The nepo baby who invested his dad’s wealth into half a dozen bankruptcies say it’s people like him who built America. The rest of you peasants he calls “complainers.”

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Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?
JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
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World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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As I reread the pope’s encyclical, I’m confused why he spends so much time on the church’s social teaching rather than the church’s relationship to science. And especially perplexed that he never mentions Teilhard de Chardin who’s writings are arguably the best response to AI
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This is the part the mainstream media doesn't show you. An openly anti-Zionist Jewish community. Anti-Zionism is NOT antisemitism. Opposing Zionism does not make someone antisemitic or an enemy of the Jewish people. Being against Zionism does not make you anti-Jewish. Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism
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